Best hardware detection

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007, Harry Giles wrote:
>I have a new HP Pavilion DV9000 I want to put Linux on, but it has 
>issues with the keyboard detection when I try Mepis, Ubuntu, etc.  Also, 
>it has a AMD Turion 64x2 processor, and an expanded keyboard with a 
>built in num pad.
>
> From all your experience, what distro handles hardware detection best?
>
>Also, under XP, where do I go to get a list of the installed hardware 
>(wireless card, networking card, video, etc.)?

I often use the a knoppix live-CD to probe hardware, particularly NICs
before installing Linux.

I had some problems booting knoppix V5.0.1 fairly recently, and used V4.0.2
without problems.  The current version appears to be V5.1.1.

Bill
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